A road border crossing into Kazakhstan is located in Jeminay town.

The Kazakh settlement across the border is Maykapshagay near Zaysan in East Kazakhstan Region.

Jeminay County is divided into 4 towns, 3 townships.

13,209 people were Han Chinese while 24,524 belonged to the county's fifteen different ethnic minority groups.

According to the 2005 census, the native ethnic Kazaks, accounted for more than sixty percent of the county's total population figure.